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circumlocutory Definition


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circumlocution
noun
    1. An unnecessarily long or indirect way of saying something.
      Thesaurus: discursiveness, digression, redundancy, verbiage, wordiness, prolixity, periphrasis.
Derivative: circumlocutory
adj
    Etymology: 16c.



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